I Tried Pro Animation WITHOUT DRAWING using AI
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Watch full animation - A Knights Journey: • A Knight's Journey - A...
I challenged myself to create a professional animation without drawing, by using Midjourney v6 and Cartoon Animator 5 (along with other tools).
If I am able to figure this out, then everyone around the world will be able to create amazing content to finally animate their ideas, stories, books and memories.
It is exciting times.
With the new update in Midjourney v6, we were able to create beautiful backgrounds for the story.
Thanks Howard Wimshurst and Yuliya Zabelina for the interview, conversations and permissions.
And Special Thanks to my wonderful students for this journey, for their feedback and support.
Aloha Day
Bexar
Helene Jacobs
Marshal Weaver
Simona Adelina
Sophia
Sites and Links mentioned in the video
Hayao Miyasaki Inspired Animation: • Hayao Miyazaki Ghibli ...
Dungeons and Kittens: • Dungeons & Kittens - T...
Howard Wimshurst video series "The AI Problem": • Humans against Generat...
Yuliya Zabelina's (Era-7) Portfolio: www.deviantart...
Nelson Mandela photo by lasanta.com.ec
Building Dreams Foundation: bdf.ngo/
Tools used:
Cartoon Animator: www.reallusion...
MotionArray: motionarray.com/
Midjourney: www.midjourney...
Freepik: www.freepik.com/
Mister Horse: misterhorse.com/
Watch the full animation and let me know what you think, do you agree with the Judges?
ruclips.net/video/zO82p17DYMU/видео.html
Wow, I was captivated from beginning to end, can't wait for the sequel!
Glad you enjoyed it! - What would you like to see in the sequel?
Mark, You're my model... I love your way of life and your humanity.
Your kind feelings for others' success reveal your heart...
Thanks for being my favorite teacher ❤
WOW! I am truly grateful for your support and for considering me your favorite teacher. It's amazing to know that I can have a positive impact on someone's life. Thank you!
I am looking forward to seeing you grow, and if you are interested in taking some challenges like Selva for future videos, email me at mdiaz@2danimation101.com
I was intrigued with this challenge but not for the question you were asking. For over ten years I have been looking at different animation software programs that make animation projects easy. My goal is to use local relatively unknown iconic leader stories to motivate at-risk youth to learn, but more specifically to want to learn to read at grade level. These stories explain how these leaders overcame the adversity of their era when it seemed impossible for them to achieve. Your challenge illustrated how someone who cannot draw and paint can make an animation that approaches professional quality. I can use your challenge project to answer the ubiquitous rejection I get from teachers who tell me " I'm not technical, I can't draw". There are thousand of large flat screen monitors and projectors in public schools with learning management system software that is not culturally and place-based relevant to so called at-risk youth. Culturally relevant student pencil and crayon refrigerator art is exponentially more powerful to an at-risk child than a professionally created animation that is not perceived as relevant to an at-risk youth's community. AI is a cost effective way to produce animated training videos by non professionally trained teachers, to get at-risk youth reading at grade-level. Best regards!
Wow - this comment is awesome, this is exactly why I am challenging myself, and why learning it is so important. I want to empower teachers, and you are a perfect example of someone who shares my mission.
Would you be interested in having a call with me? If so, email me to mdiaz@2danimation101.com with subject line: "You told me to reach you on a RUclips comment for a chat"
Hello Mark,
Long time no contact. Good to see you are still challenging yourself in the Art World. I have the following critiques for your animation. The scenes look very professional in most of the animation. I think your animation is lacking character movements overall. In the first scene where the knight is walking across the city scape, there is allot of character movement (His arms are swinging, his legs are moving, and his body also has movement.) However i think the problem with the remainder of the animation is that the main character no longer has any body movement, just a little spring action in the fire stairs scene with his clothing. If you had taken as much time to recreate all the scenes with more character movements then I would say it would be much closer to the Kittens. Somehow you need to be able to turn the characters body and head as well which is difficult without additional drawings. If you could accomplish this then I feel you are on the right track. Mike21
Hi Mike21! It's great to hear from you after such a long time. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch my animation and provide your valuable critique. I'm really glad that you found some parts of it professional. I'll definitely work on adding more character movements to make it even better.
For the next challenge I will focus on Character Expression - and yes, part of the feedback I got was that it was more like a Motion Comic, and not so much an animation. You are absolutely right, thanks.
Mark, please teach us how to rig a character without drawing with the new AI technology.
Really appreciate the fact that you showed your "less than favorable" result. Definitely makes it real. Thank you.
You are welcome, and Thank you!
Great video. Can you tell us why the last two animators didn't like your animation? It would be great to understand differences in thought. Thank you.
Thank you for watching the video! I appreciate your interest and curiosity about the opinions of the last two animators. I'll definitely consider making a follow-up video to discuss their thoughts and the differences in animation styles. Stay tuned!
(In a nutshell: They thought the animation was good, but the problem was that the STANDARD I set - Dungeons and Kittens - was too high)
The most difficult part of animation is the movement, expression, and consistency of the image of a character from various angles.
So far I have used Stable Diffusion to produce images with a certain theme from a video to capture movement and expression. But still, AI (free/cheap version) can't completely beat manual as far as I've found in terms of variety and consistency
This is a very interesting point. Yep - I do have something else to try in the next challenge. Thanks so much. So, would you say if I improve the movement, expression and consistency of the image from various angles, would you say I could create professionally-looking animations?
@@2DAnimation101 It goes back to what standards we use. It is very difficult to define what constitutes a professional. But at least, we have made progress.
I don't think showing our work to professionals is a good idea. Because they are the so-called "manufacturers". They are “competitors”, not “target markets”. Because the final target of a product is "consumers". So there is a difference in point of view. If we ask the "manufacturer", they will determine the "market segment". So, why don't we define our own "market segments" ourselves.
The final result of a creation must meet 2 aspects: storytelling and the image or animation itself.
So in the video you presented, I haven't captured the story being told. I'm sure, if you added a narrative to it, the end result would look much different.
For the image/animation factor, I have some suggestions on tools you might consider.
1. MMD & MMM - There are many free assets provided by the community: characters, environments, etc. So we don't need to create our own assets (although we can). This can speed up the final results, and the process is very easy. We just need to combine several of the assets and customize the animated movements, expressions, etc. The tool also supports motion capture.
I recommend using MMM to make the movements easier. But if you want to create a better effect, use MMD.
This is my video using MMM: ruclips.net/user/video5I8DX2X8VUs
2. Avaturn + DeepMotion: Avaturn is a tool that can create your own characters and export them to DeepMotion to create movement.
3. Invideo to create story videos using AI.
4. SunoAI to create songs.
5. LeonardoAI live canvas, KreaAI to make bad images good.
6. Comipo to create manga comics.
7. ClipStudio paint has many assets provided by both the developer and the community
But, if you ask me how to get so many likes, I don't know. It is influenced by the way we convey it. And we are not talking about advertising and stuff. But I notice that you already have the ability to entertain. Anyway, how to make the story and animation, yes that has been completed
@@2DAnimation101 There's a new tool I found: heroforge to make and customize avatars
Wooooo, felicidades Markito
Gracias!
Keep in mind you can't actually copyright an art style. Only works of art are protected by copyright. It is not uncommon for professional artists to be commissioned to produce works 'in the style of' specific artists... not to mention the hundreds of artists that have to learn 'Disney' style when working on a Disney 2D animated project, or the thousands of artists working in the Anime/Manga style, or the literally millions of artists that use photographic references to base character poses and other elements of their artworks on (sometimes flying dangerously close to actually breaching copyright laws).
All that to say... I do agree AI's shouldn't be trained on copyrighted art without the artist's permission (and they should receive some kind of royalty or license payment ideally if they agree). I disagree that the images AI's produce are breaching anyone's copyright unless the image being generated could easily be mistaken for an existing copyrighted work - which is not the same as being in the style of a specific artist.
I did enjoy this video I just think the moral standing of some artists on AI art is short sighted. I see it as an opportunity to earn more as an artist, not less. Anyway... the only additional thing I'd like to see you challenge yourself on in these 'no drawing skills required' animations is adding Cartoon Animator's morph based heads into the mix. They're an easy way for non artists to get their characters talking with face animation. Most people usually want their characters to talk to each other.
DAVID! Thanks so much for your thoughtful reply. And yes, morph based heads could be cool content for new challenges.
In any case, I am working on another RUclips video about the "Ethics of AI" and would love it if I could interview you so you can share some of your thoughts about this, because I really like your point of view. In the video I could mention your page and blog.
If you are up for it, you can reach me on facebook, or send me an email to mdiaz@2danimation101.com
@@2DAnimation101 I'm flattered that you would want to interview me but I don't really want to be a part of a discussion that is toxic on both sides. Particularly on RUclips.
I'm keeping an eye on the space, dabble a bit with AI art myself, and write about it in both my blogs on occasion. Feel free to use my blog's for research, I just wouldn't call myself an authority on AI art.
At the end of the day I prefer drawing on real paper with an actual pen - because digital art isn't real art (it is but I remember when people thought that about digital art because they had an 'undo button''). Really I just prefer it because it gets me away from a screen.
Great video with storytelling. I'm still in conflict with myself about AI. I tried it al but AI it don't give me the same satisfaction then creating my own drawings. AI is the same evolution just like photoshop for painting was. when artist use photoshop the tradition painters called them cheaters. love your video and your
2D Animation 101 courses .greetz Pascal Teunissen
Thanks so much Pascal for your comment and support. Yep, I agree, there is some satisfaction about doing things on your own. What do you think of the idea I propose in this video, of allowing people with no drawing skills to create PRO animations? I am interested in your reply
@@2DAnimation101 I think it's a great thing. It give you a great tool for your animation journey. it really can give fast result and very good looking animation. it give people with great storytelling skils but with no art skill a great chance to visualize their story's
oh, that is a great point of view, thanks for sharing.
This was a great video. Fun and entertaining while learning some valuable lessons along the way.
The most important lessons were to challenge ourselves, taking chances and be willing to learn if we don't win. The other is seeing first hand in having others review it.
Even though it was a fun video, it was a great example in demonstrating the importance in not letting yourself feel so defeated and find that sense of humor in it. Bacon sounds like a yummy trade off. 😊 And congratulations to Aditya for your win 💸. This was an awesome video Mark.
I love your creative ways in teaching, giving so much in encouraging and challenging us to keep at it. I'm so grateful for your videos. It may be taking me a little longer to get to where I'm going, but I'm grateful for videos like this to help on the journey.
YEY! Thanks so much Debbie! I am looking forward to seeing your work, you have been a student with us for some time, and would be awesome to see your animations.
Hi Mark the story is engaging and I watched the whole thing.I just think that people needs to embrace AI and its potential and work with it.At the end of the day we will still need animators.
Very good in substance and form. Thanks for sharing this.
I don't agree with the judges! It's a plot !🤣
How could you lose?? You are amazing! What's wrong with animation?
Yuliya! Helloooo! Honestly this was a “good failure” - the thing was that I set a really high standard and was not able to fulfill it. That is not a bad thing
Does motionarray music is free to use?
The service is not free, but once you pay the monthly fee, Yes - it is royalty free music, you can read more about it here
motionarray.com/license/
They have a video explaining it too
Basically, you can use it for commercial purposes and monetize.
To be fair ...yes and no!. Only because the contestant was trained and guided through the process!. To a fair degree, most creators, or would be creators, usually have a basic understanding of workflows and tools!. People without that knowledge, usually don't even have the desire to create these types of productions. Except for children, because teens are quite aware of technology, usually ahead of many adults!.🤔💯
Halfway through this vid and sooo tempted to click out! For other vids, pleeeease stop rehashing your premise / stakes over and over! we get the premise, this isn't some terrible reality TV people are putting up in the background to half listen to, we're here, we're watching, we get it, just tell the story already!!
Thanks for your feedback! I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. I'll definitely take your suggestion into consideration for future videos.
Lol where is the proof that her art was stolen? Every artist is making that claim
throughout the video you are being overdramatic which in my opinion gets annoying after the start of the video. everything else? Great Video
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback